On Sunday, Aug 22, 2004, at 14:39 US/Pacific, M Turner wrote: > This is an unpaid advertisement!� Mike Veronesi of East Bridgewater MA > has been working on my 1962 Imperial Custom Southampton for the last > several weeks, replacing lower wheel bearings, cleaning & rebuilding > the carburetor, bleeding the brakes and adjusting them.� Mike replaced > nearly all hoses, corrected the elevation of the car and put new > brackets on the torsion bars.� Mike also found an ace muffler shop > that replaced the cherry bombs (Yes! cherry bombs) with nice dual > exhausts.� He also showed me driveshaft problems to be corrected, > because the rubber has vulcanized.� He will undertake that repair > shortly. > It's always nice to find a good Imperial-friendly mechanic! I've found a place like that in Tucson: Meyer's Garage on Grant Road. (No relation to me). And cherry bombs make great resonators! I had a dual exhaust put on my '65 using those so-called "turbo" mufflers. Well, they were too loud and they would set up a harmonic frequency that would drone and give you a headache. I had a couple of big, long glass-packs added after the mufflers, close to the tail pipe and that mellowed it out beautifully. I love how this car sounds....